QMJHL Names Scholastic POM

Every month, the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League announces a Scholastic Player of the Month which recognizes a player on each team with his performance on ice and in the classroom. The player is selected based on their school results, their implication, the school-hockey conciliation, their team spirit and their on-ice performances.

For your Halifax Mooseheads, Darcy Ashley was named the Scholastic Player of the Month for October 2013. Ashley scored 8 goals and added 7 assists for 15 points during the month of October while missing the first 4 games of the month and September because of injury. He was named the first star of the week for the week ending October 27, 2013.

Here is the full list:

BAC	Jérémie Grégoire	Cégep de Baie-Comeau
BAT	Alexandre Gosselin	Cégep à distance
BLB	Aaron Hoyles	New Brunswick Virtual High School
CAP	Charles-Éric Légaré	Cégep à distance
CHA	Deverick Ottereyes	NETC
CHI	Gabriel D'Astous-Moreau	Cégep de Chicoutimi
DRU	Nikolas Brouillard	Cégep de Drummondville
GAT	Jean-Simon Deslauriers	Cégep de l'Outaouais
HAL	Darcy Ashley	Saint Mary's University
MON	Graham Hunt	Mount Allison University
QUE	Maxime Chevalier	Cégep de Limoilou
RIM	Anthony Chapados	Cégep de Rimouski
ROU	Quinn O'Brien	Cégep de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue
SHA	Matthew Klebanskyj	Cégep à distance
SHE	Gabriel Parent	Cégep de Sherbrooke
SNB	Jason Cameron	UNBSJ
VDO	Pierre-Maxime Poudrier	Cégep de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue
VIC	Mark Trickett	Acadia University

PITR events a success

Press Release.

The 18 Pink in the Rink games that were held this past October were a great success. Of course they are always a success as the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and it's teams raise money to help raise awareness and fund breast cancer research but with every passing year it gets better. According to Commissioner Gilles Courteau the league raised a record amount this season of $142,041. That's a fantastic amount to go towards research to stop this terrible disease that plagues woman.

The commissioner had this to say; "More than 400 pink jerseys worn by the players and developed by our official supplier, Reebok/CCM, and their partners in this endeavour, SP Apparel, was sold with the proceeds being distributed to local, regional or national organizations dedicated to the fight against breast cancer. I would like to congratulate our teams for their excellent work and thank our great fans for their generosity."


I would also like to congratulate everyone involved. The above amount is the total amount raised by the league, no word on how much the Moose made as a team. I can say that we donated at least $1,250 to the cause.

Currently, the Canadian Hockey League is raising funds for Prostate Cancer research with their MOvember campaign. To make a donation online click here.

Around the CHL ~ volume #2 season edition #4

We are now almost two months into the new season. Hope everyone is enjoying it. The first month was a tough one for your Halifax Mooseheads but they have showed signs of last year's team. Hope you have enjoyed the extended coverage on my blog and I hope to keep adding more posts, other than previews and recaps, in the coming months. Look back soon for the next edition of Around the CHL and don't forget GO Moose GO.

League leaders
Goals - Anthony Mantha 20 goals (QMJHL Val-d'Or Foreurs), Nathan Pancel 19 goals (OHL Sudbury Wolves), Mitch Holmberg 18 goals (WHL Spokane Chiefs)
Assists - Nicolas Petan 27 assists (WHL Portland Winterhawks), Connor McDavid 25 assists (OHL Erie Otters), Anthony Mantha 23 assists (QMJHL Val-d'Or Foreurs)
Points - Anthony Mantha 43 points (QMJHL Val-d'Or Foreurs), Mitch Holmberg 42 points (WHL Spokane Chiefs),  Connor Brown 36 points (OHL Erie Otters)
Defenceman points - Anthony DeAngelo 26 points (OHL Sarnia Sting), Randy Gazzola 26 points (QMJHL Val-d'Or Foreurs), Travis Brown 22 points (WHL Moose Jaw Warriors)
Rookie points - Nikolaj Ehlers 28 points (QMJHL Halifax Mooseheads), Nikita Schebak 27 points (WHL Saskatoon Blades), Travis Konecny 16 points (OHL Ottawa 67's)
Goalie wins - Philippe Cadorette 13 wins (QMJHL Baie-Comeau Drakkar), Brendan Burke 13 wins (WHL Portland Winterhawks), Justin Nichols 12 wins (OHL Guelph Storm)
Save percentage - Anthony Stolarz 0.930 SAV% (OHL London Knights), Jordon Cooke 0.929 SAV% (WHL Kelowna Rockets), Sebastien Auger 0.928 SAV% (QMJHL Saint John Sea Dogs)
Goals against average - Etienne Marcoux 1.89 GAA (QMJHL Blainville-Boisbraind Armada), Eric Williams 2.20 GAA (WHL Spokane Chiefs), Matt Murray 2.26 GAA (OHL Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds)

Division leaders
WHL - Portland Winterhawks 29 points/14 wins (U.S. division), Kelowna Rockets 24 points/11 wins (B.C. division), Medicine Hat Tigers 24 points/11 wins (Central division), Prince Albert Raiders 23 points/11 wins (East division)
OHL - Guelph Storm 30 points/15 wins (Midwest division), Oshawa Generals 29 points/14 wins (East division), Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds 28 points/13 wins (West division), Mississauga Steelheads 21 points/10 wins (Central division)
QMJHL - Blainville-Boisbraind Armada 32 points/15 wins (TELUS West division), Baie-Comeau Drakkar 31 points/14 wins (TELUS East division), Halifax Mooseheads 28 points/14 wins (Maritimes division)

BMO CHL top ten ~ week 8
1. Blainville-Boisbriand Armada {15-1-2-0} week 7 #1
2. Guelph Storm {15-3-0-0} week 7 #2
3. Portland Winterhawks {14-3-0-1} week 7 #6
4. Baie-Comeau Drakkar {14-4-0-3} week 7 #4
5. Erie Otters {13-3-1-0} week 7 #5
6. Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds {13-2-0-2} week 7  #7
7. Kelowna Rockets {11-2-0-2} week 7 n/a
8. Oshawa Generals {14-3-0-1} week 7 #10
9. Medicine Hat Tigers {11-3-2-0} week 7 n/a
10. Gatineau Olympiques {14-7-0-0} week 7  n/a
Honorable mentions: Everett Silvertips {11-3-2-0 n/a}, Halifax Mooseheads {14-8-0-0 #8}, Spokane Chiefs {12-6-0-0 #3}


Tonight's games
Sagueneens  vs. Wildcats at 7pm/ET
Remparts vs. Cataractes at 7pm/ET
Tigres vs. Foreurs at 7:30pm/ET
Broncos vs. Raiders at 8pm/ET
Pats vs. Hurricanes at 9pm/ET
Chiefs vs. Tigers at 9pm/ET
Americans vs. Winterhawks at 10pm/ET
Blazers vs. Silvertips at 10:05pm/ET
Rebels vs. Rockets at 10:05pm/ET
Oil Kings vs. Royals at 10:05pm/ET

Happenings since last edition
*The Charlottetown Islanders have surprised some people with a good start to the season but have since lost 6 straight.
*Halifax Mooseheads and Rouyn-Noranda Huskies combined to score the most goals in one game since the 80's in a 15-5 Mooseheads win in Rouyn-Noranda.
*The Canadian Hockey League announced it's three team rosters for the Subway Series which begins November 18.
*MOvember has started.

Note: the bidding to host the 2015 Memorial Cup tournament has been widdled down to two teams after the Moncton Wildcats withdrew their bid.

Herd Word

FRIDAY
This Friday, your Halifax Mooseheads will take on the Moncton Wildcats in a special event game. The boys will wear special Military jerseys during the game which will than be raffled off like the pink jerseys a couple weeks ago. This is because it is DND Appreciation Night at the Metro Centre. The game will be shown on national television so puck drop won't be until 8pm.

sneak peak of the jersey from @HFXMooseheads on twitter

ULTIMATE FAN
The BMO Ultilmate CHL fan contest is back!! Wear your best colors, jerseys and all around fan apparel. The Halifax Mooseheads date is November 22 when the Herd take on the Acadie-Bathurst Titan at 7pm. For full contest details click here.

EARLY SUCCESS
Here's an interesting article in the Metro about the early success of the Mooseheads who are now 6 points ahead of the Charlottetown Islanders, who started the season winning 5 straight.

MOOSE IN THE PROS
Here are how the former Herd players are doing in the pros (ECHL, AHL & NHL) so far this season:
Nathan MacKinnon (Colorado) 13gp - 2 goals & 7 assists 29 shots - 5th in team scoring (Story)
Stefan Fournier (Hamilton) 5gp - 0 points 10 shots -1 rating - 6 penalty minutes
Alexandre Grenier (Utica) 8gp - 1 goal & 5 assists 11 shots - 3rd in team scoring
Andrew Bodnarchuk (Manchester) 12gp - 3 goals & 4 assists 22 shots - 7th in team scoring
Martin Frk (Grand Rapids) 6gp - 0 points 3 shots -3 rating - 6 penalty minutes (Story)
Konrad Abeltshauser (Worcester) 5gp - 0 points 11 shots -5 rating
Stephen MacAulay (Wheeling) 5gp - 1 assist 3 shots -4 rating - 8 penalty minutes

SUBWAY SERIES
All three league teams for the Subway Super Series have been announced when Team WHL announced their roster today in league with the Lethbridge Hurricanes and Red Deer Rebels.
Team QMJHL roster. November 18 in Gatineau and November 20 in Sherbrooke
Team OHL roster. November 21 in Oshawa and November 25 in Sudbury
Team WHL roster. November 27 in Red Deer and November 28 in Lethbridge

Breaking: Beauchemin traded again

Former Halifax Mooseheads player Dominic Beauchemin has been traded once again. The Acadie-Bathurst Titan have traded Beauchemin along with Patrick Zdrahal to the Rimouski Oceanic for Scott Oke, Charles Poulin and a 4th round pick in 2014.

Beachemin was originally traded to the Titan back in June at the 2013 QMJHL draft for the 91st pick, who Halifax chose Jean-Sebastien Tellefer with. In 17 games played with the Titan this season, Dominic has collected 11 points, scoring 5 times and having 6 helpers.

Good luck in Rimouski Dominic.

POSTGAME: Mooseheads 15, Huskies 5

MC POST-GAME
Halifax break record in road game in Rouyn-Noranda

FINAL: Mooseheads 15 at Olympiques 5
Attendance: 1,772
Three stars: 3. Andrews HAL | 2. Ryan HAL | 1. Ehlers HAL

The Chronicle Herald's recap: It was a wild one in Rouyn-Noranda on Friday night.

Metro Halifax's recap: The Halifax Mooseheads set a new franchise record at the expense of the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies on Friday night.

The Q News' recap: For the first time in franchise history the Halifax Mooseheads scored more than 11 11 goals in a game in a 15-5 flogging of the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies on Friday night at the Arena Iamgold.

The Canadian Press' recap: The Halifax Mooseheads demolished the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies with an 15-5 victory in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action Friday.

halifaxmooseheads.ca's recap: The Mooseheads enjoyed one of those nights on Friday.

QMJHL.ca's recap: Game summary.

SCORERS: Brent Andrews (8) HAL 0:32, Marcus Power (10) ROU 1:47, Jean-Sebastien Dea (13) ROU 5:30, Matt Murphy (2) HAL 7:27, Brendan Duke (1) HAL 9:29, Julien Nantel (4) ROU 13:55, Austyn Hardie (2) HAL 14:48, Jean-Sebastien Dea (14) ROU 19:27, Nikolaj Ehlers (9) HAL 27:15, Dnny Moynihan (2) HAL 32:37, Darcy Ashley (9) HAL 34:30, Nikolaj Ehlers (10) HAL 35:36, Jonathan Drouin (4) HAL 38:07, Andrew Ryan (11) HAL 40:33, Danny Moynihan (3) HAL 41:35, Brent Andrews (9) HAL 43:32, Mathieu Lemay (7) ROU 53:24, Andrew Ryan (12) HAL 55:49, Jonathan Drouin (5) HAL 56:06, Jesse Lussier (1) HAL 59:29

MISSING IN ACTION: Vincent Watt (healthy), Mac Weegar (ankle), Trey Lewis (hip), Andrew Shewfelt (healthy) and Ryan Falkenham (hips) were the scratches for the Mooseheads.

EHLERS

Nikolaj Ehlers has joined an elite group of Mooseheads players after he assisted on Brent Andrews record breaking goal which gave Nikolaj 5 points in the game. He joins the likes of Nagy and Nathan MacKinnon who have scored the most points by a rookie in one game on the team. There are now 6 players in franchise history to record 5 points in one game in their rookie season.

DARVEAU

Kevin Darveau came in to start the second period in relief of Zach Fucale, who started the game, and stopped 17 of 18 shots he faced in last night's game. He received the winning decision.

LUSSIER
Jesse Lussier scored his first goal of his QMJHL career. He scored shorthanded with 21 seconds left in the game. Congrats Jesse.

FIRST PERIOD

Despite the lowish shot total the game was tied at 4 after the first twenty minutes. Halifax led the shots in the first period 14 to 11 with Zach Fucale getting pulled after the period.

RECORD
The Mooseheads set a new franchise record when Brent Andrews scored the twelfth goal of the night. Halifax has never scored more than 11 goals in a game before last night. This one will be hard to break now but you never know. The Herd have scored 11 goals nine times before.

FIVE
Brent Andrews, Nikolaj Ehlers and Andrew Ryan all had five points in yesterday's win. They all had 2 goals and 3 assists on the night.

OTHER SCORES
Acadie-Bathurst 1 - 4 Cape Breton
Sherbrooke 4 - 3 Charlottetown
Moncton 6 - 2 Saint John
Blainville 7 - 2 Chicoutimi
Shawinigan 2 - 5 Victoriaville
Rimouski 3 - 4 Baie-Comeau
Quebec 1 - 4 Val-d'Or

UP NEXT
Halifax will play their last game on this Quebec road trip tonight when they take on the Val-d'Or Foreurs.

GAMEDAY 21: at Rouyn-Noranda

IT'S GAMEDAY

ROUYN-NORANDA HUSKIES vs. HALIFAX MOOSEHEADS

Puck drops at 8:30pm

Arena Iamgold (2,150) ~ Rouyn-Noranda, QC

PREVIEW - Can you believe it? It's already November. The Halifax Mooseheads are playing their twenty-first game of the 2013-14 season on the first day of November or as lots of people call it "MOvember". Don't expect to see the whole team sporting moustaches by the end of the month but some certainly should. There's be no announcement though if the team will do a special MOvember event.

Now back to this game. It's the second game of the a three game Quebec road trip. Despite the takeover of first place in the Maritime division, Halifax has yet to win four straight games this season. They had a chance to on Wednesday night but took too many penalties in a double loss, MacKenzie Weegar seemed to hurt his knee during a fight but the team is listing it as a high ankle sprain. There will probably be more penalties in tonight's game as the rivalry got heated in last year's third round of the playoffs.


This is the second and final meeting between these two teams. The Huskies defeated the Mooseheads 2 weeks ago in Halifax 5-3. Darcy Ashley had two goals in the loss despite the Herd shooting 38 pucks at Gatineau's goalie Carl Hozjan.

THE NUMBERS

Leading scorers
HAL: Nikolaj Ehlers 23pts (8G & 15A), Andrew Ryan 20pts (10G & 10A), Brent Andrews 17pts (7G & 10A)
ROU: Marcus Power 27pts (9G & 18A), Francis Perron 20pts (7G & 13A), Mathieu Lemay 15pts (6G & 9A)

LAST GAMES
Rouyn-Noranda are coming off a 5-4 win against the Foreurs in Val-d'Or on Sunday despite being outshot. Jean-Sebastien Dea scored a hat trick while Alexandre Belanger made 34 saves.

Halifax played thier first game of the road trip on Wednesday against the Olympiques in Gatineau. Darcy Ashley continued to score while Zach Fucale stopped 22 pucks in a 5-2 loss.

HEAD-TO-HEAD
October 19  Huskies 5 at Mooseheads 2
November 1 @ 8:30pm  Mooseheads at Huskies

NOT PLAYING - As I mentioned before Mac Weegar is out with a high ankle sprain so he will join Trey Lewis and Ryan Falkenham in the press box

OUT OF TOWN
Titan at Eagles - 7:00pm
Phoenix at Islanders - 7:00pm
Wildcats at Sea Dogs - 7:30pm
Armada at Sagueneens - 8:00pm
Cataractes at Tigres - 8:00pm
Oceanic at Drakkar - 8:30pm
Remparts at Foreurs - 8:30pm

GAME COVERAGE
TV: None
Live: @CoolenTQN
Webcast: TELUS
Radio: News 95.7
Post-game: The Chronicle Herald

AFTER THE GAME
The Moose will finish this road trip tomorrow in Val-d'Or to take on the Foreurs. Puck drops at 8:30pm.